Investment

Regulators should not "pass the buck" to blame pension funds for poor corporate governance, scheme managers say.

Trust-based defined contribution schemes will become "significantly" more popular with employers in the run up to 2012, Hymans Robertson believes.

Friends Provident made a loss of £871m during 2008 as individual pensions and protection sales plummeted, and new investment business was almost wiped out.

The latest edition of the Pensions Review sees Terry Faulkner of Goldman Sachs and Hewitt's John Belgrove discuss how pension schemes are coping with turbulent markets, and which asset classes are offering the best value.

February saw £42bn wiped off the value of defined contribution scheme assets, Aon Consulting figures reveal.

Barclays is in talks with a US private equity firm over the sale of its iShares exchange traded fund business, Professional Pensions has learned.

About 10% of occupational pension schemes have concerns about the value for money their investment consultant provides, National Association of Pension Funds research reveals.

Two-thirds of companies are concerned about the consequences of auto-enrolment on their business, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey shows.

Trustees are largely unaware of the potential conflicts of interest and risk involved with securities lending, a former governor of the International Corporate Governance Network has claimed.

Many members will be disappointed with defined contribution schemes due to lack of knowledge, industry experts say.